The Happy Prince, and Other Tales, Opening, part 4, sentence 91

It is not in very good repair; indeed, one side is gone, and there is something wrong with the wheel-spokes; but in spite of that I will give it to you.

Who acts: wheelbarrow, one side, something, I · What happens: not be, be, give, spite · To what, where: good repair, wheelbarrow, you, spite, that

This is a sentence of «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Opening, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wheelbarrow, one side, something, I), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 repair	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 repair	cop
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 repair	advmod
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 repair	case
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 good	advmod
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 repair	amod
7	repair	repair	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 gone	punct
9	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	14 gone	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 gone	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 side	nummod
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 gone	nsubj
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	cop
14	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 repair	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 is	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 is	cc
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 is	expl
18	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 gone	advcl
19	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 is	nsubj
20	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 something	amod
21	with	with	ADP	_	25 spokes	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 spokes	det
23	wheel	wheel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 spokes	compound
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 wheel	punct
25	spokes	spoke	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 wrong	obl
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	34 give	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	34 give	cc
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 spite	case
29	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 give	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 that	case
31	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 spite	nmod
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 give	nsubj
33	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	34 give	aux
34	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 repair	parataxis
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 give	obj
36	to	to	ADP	_	37 you	case
37	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 give	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 repair	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is	present	wheelbarrow			good repair		tree rules
2	is	present	one side				gone, indeed property	tree rules
3	be	present	something			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	give	future	I	wheelbarrow	you	spite of that		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to you=Recipient
5	spite			that				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Happy Prince, and Other Tales» by Oscar Wilde, Project Gutenberg book 902 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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